LONG POND, Pa. — Ryan Newman hopes his Brickyard 400 win last week will do a couple of things — serve as momentum for his Stewart-Haas Racing team and encourage sponsors and team owners to want him to drive their car next season.

He has no guarantees five days after his big win at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All he can hope to do is build on that this weekend as the Sprint Cup Series competes at Pocono Raceway.

Ryan Newman hopes his Brickyard 400 win helps him land a new Cup ride for 2014. (AP Photo)

Newman had about 350 text messages that he answered over the last five days but none were job offers that would guarantee him a Cup ride for 2014. Newman was told three weeks ago that he would not return to Stewart-Haas, which has hired Kevin Harvick for next season.

“It didn’t hurt with respect to that, but it’s not like a light switch where you can just flip it and everything turns on,” Newman said prior to Cup practice Friday at Pocono.

“It’s up to us as well to do the same thing we did last week and at least show it’s not a one-off, too, (that) we can duplicate and replicate the things that happen.”

Newman said the victory gives him a vision for the future.

“The $20 million (sponsor) doesn’t just jump right after you,” Newman said. “I wish it did. But it didn’t.”

Newman is 16th in the Cup standings and in at least Chase wild-card contention thanks to the win.

But to make the Chase, Newman needs more good runs. Another win would be great, but Newman’s last two-win season came in 2004.

“I’ve got some one-win seasons that … I’m proud of, but at the same time I’m not proud of because when you win once, you should be able to keep winning if you have the tools to do it,” Newman said.

“Some teams are fighting for that first victory in not just one but three or four years. For me, it’s a challenge this weekend because I have never won at Indy and Indy and Pocono are so close.”

The key to winning more often will be handling mistakes, Newman said.

“Everything that is negative you have to avoid, but you’re still going to have the negative in there and it’s how you overcome those things that makes you a winner.”

Newman believes a second win would lock his No. 39 team into a wild-card spot.

“It hasn’t changed my mentality other than the fact that it changes your hope,” Newman said. “It doesn’t change my drive. My drive is still go out and do the exact same thing regardless.”

If he keeps doing that, he hopes that he will land a solid Cup ride for 2014.

“You can sit there and talk to somebody and until the writing is on the paper and the ink is dry do you not really know,” Newman said. “It wasn’t like the phone rang off the hook (this week) with respect to sponsors or car owners or a manufacturer or any of that.

“I didn’t expect it to. I think some people kind of expected it to. I’m working on what I need to work on, I feel, to be in a good, competitive position next year.”